said they would ask a technician (from the Triad company) to check out the machines on
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F r o n t D o o r o f G r e e n e C o u n t y B o a rd o f E l ec t io n s O f f ic e U n l o c k ed ( L ) , a n d P o l l B o o k " l o c k ed d o w n " b y
S e c re t ar y B la c k w e ll th e P re v io u s D a y i s U n s e cu r e d ( R )
A number of other substantial irregularities in Greene County with demo to our attention
that were uncovered after the office was discovered to be unsecure. In the short period of time
that observers were given to version voting records, ballots were not counted for apparently
erroneous reasons.427 In a number of cases, Greene County officials rejected ballots because the
secrecy envelope for the ballot appeared to indicate that the voter had voted in the wrong
precinct,428 notwithstanding the fact that a notation was made apparently by an election worker
indicating the vote should count.429 The records appeared to indicate that, in some cases, voters
were sent to the wrong precinct by election workers and, in others, were given the wrong
426
Id. See discussion, infra, regarding Hocking County incident and Triad technician.
427
Staff Interview with Katrina Sumner, Green Party coordinator for the Greene County
Recount, December 31, 2001.
428
See discussion, infra, regarding Secretary Blackwell's bizarre legal dictates pre-and
post-election, including new restrictions on provisional balloting inconsistent with the law.
429
Staff Interview, supra.
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